I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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True life is elsewhere.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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